Instrução pública no Brasil Imperial (1824-1885)

Abstract

The present work has the purpose of understanding and analyzing the process of institutionalization of public education in the Empire of Brazil and in Alagoas, between 1824 and 1885. The research is based on a bibliographical and documentary research. Works by authors such as Bloch (2001), Viotti (2010), Costa (1931), Élcio (2008) and Pires (1989) were consulted and provincial reports of Titara (1856), the constitution of 1824, Additional Act of 1834 and the Decree of 1881. Based on the studies of public instruction during the period it was possible to conclude that the attempts to build a nation through a project considered as modernizing and civilizing, inspired by French and English ideologies, directly influenced the educational policies of the Empire . It was also observed that the obstacles caused by a slave and oligarchic society made it difficult for the most popular classes to access the teaching of the first letters, this exclusion became a justification for political restraint, as was the approval of the Saraiva Law of 1881, which allowed only the participation of those who knew how to "read and write".